Mr. President, I wish to first say to Senator Cardin, who led our delegation--Senator Cardin is the ranking member on the Foreign Relations Committee. Foreign relations has a lot to do with this issue. He showed great leadership, and I…

I would certainly encourage him, rather than listening to the former Director of the CIA on Charlie Rose, to talk to our current Director of the CIA and also the folks at DOD who have been doing this targeting.

I thank the Senator for the question because I think this is incredibly important. The CBO estimated that the ACA would generate $93 billion over 10 years with this tax, but when you drill down on that, only one-quarter of that--about $23…

According to one source, the Kaiser Family Foundation, one in four employers that offer health care benefits will be affected by the Cadillac tax in 2018 if their plans remain unchanged. Despite the fact that the tax doesn't go into effect…

I thank my colleague. Mr. President, the whole policy objective of the Cadillac tax was supposed to cap excessive spending as a way to reduce health care spending and to generate revenue for other parts of the ACA. Obviously, the popular…

Mr. President, I start by thanking my colleague, Senator Heller of Nevada, for his partnership and his leadership in pushing this issue forward and doing so effectively. I think the amendment we saw last week speaks to just how bipartisan…

I want to first welcome our colleague from Nebraska to this conversation. I am sure he has heard a lot about this from his constituents as well. I think the reason the timing of this is so critical is because we see the impacts of this…

I want to thank Chairman Grijalva for introducing H.R. 963, which includes the Good Samaritan legislation that Mr. Gosar was mentioning.

we need to be able to communicate to them and make them aware.

I certainly hope, as we get to the bottom of what happened--all these families were impacted, and it seems now that everyone is worried about covering their own behinds, as opposed to making people whole and getting to the bottom of this.

This year is almost over. It will likely be the warmest year on record, and the current record holder, last year, 2014.

And quite clearly, this hearing was called to inject controversy and skepticism into the issue of climate science and research, to cast doubt on the work of many scientists.

Mr. President, no family should lose a loved one to a drunk driver. But, sadly, so many families do--every day, every month, every year. It happens in my State. It happens all across our Nation. It is tragic, it is senseless, and it must…

Thank you, Chairman.

By potentially raising interest rates the Fed would endorse the idea that our economy is on a stable path towards full recovery.

I have been very vocal about how misguided it is to ask small community institutions to finance our Nation's infrastructure.

let's get the data from this group to show who has access and who doesn't; get it separated by those minority and disadvantaged farmers, as well as the young and small farmers.

It is clear that we are still having those issues.